Women Flashcards
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First Born in American COlony
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Virginia Dare
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First Winner of 2 nobel prizes
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Marie Curie
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First and only to receive the congressional medal of Honor
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Mary Walker
(American feminist, abolitionist, prohibitionist, alleged spy, prisoner of war and surgeon.
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First in Congress
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Jeannette Rankin (1916)
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First Senator
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Hattie Caraway (1932)
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First Elected in Both houses of Congress
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Margaret Chase Smith
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First Presidential Cabinet Member
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Frances Perkins (FDR administration)
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First Sec of State
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Madeleine Albright
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First Supreme COurt Justice
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Sandra Day O’Connor
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First Sect of Tranport
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Elizabeth Dole
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First Speaker of the House
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Nancy Pelosi
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First Surgeon General
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Jocelyn Elders
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First Chairman of the Fed
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Janet Yellen
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First Attorney General
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Janet Reno
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First to Break Sound Barrier
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Jacqueline Cochran
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First to fly non-stope around the world
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Jeana Yeager
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First to swim the English Channel
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Gertrude Ederle
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First American Doctor
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Elizabeth Blackwell
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First Woman in American to be Depicted on a Coin
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Susan B. Anthony
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First American Astronomer
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Maria Mitchell
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First American Woman to Win Noble Prize for Peace
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Jane Addams
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First Presidential Candidate
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Victoria Woodhull (1872)
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First Major Party VP Candidate
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Geraldine Ferraro
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First to co-Anchor Major Network News
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Barbara Walters
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First Time Woman of the Year
Wallis Simpson
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First in Gymnastics Hall of Fame
Mary Lou Retton
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First US Balance Bean Gold Medalist
Shannon Miller
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First Miss America
Margaret Gorman (1921)
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First Citadel Cadet
Shannon Faulkner
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First stewardess
Ellen Church
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First to win pole position in Daytona 500
Danica Patrick
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First to Win Academy Award for Best Director
Katherine Bigelow
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First American Idol Winner
Kelly Clarkson
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First American Convention to Advocate Women's Rights 1848
Seneca Falls Convention
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President of Argentina 2007-
Christina Fernandez (Used to be First Lady)
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President of Australia 2010-13
Julia Gillard
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German Chancellor 2005-
Angela Merkel
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Prime Minister of India 1966-77, 1980-84
Indira Gandhi
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Prime Minister of Israel, 1969-74
Golda Meir (Raised in Milwaukee)
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President of Argentina, 1975-76
Isabel Peron
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Prime Minister of GB, 1979-1990
Margaret Thatcher
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President of the Phillippines, 1986-92
Corazon Aquino
named Time magazine's "Woman of the Year" in 1986.
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Prime Minister of Pakistan, 1988-90
Benazir Bhutto
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President of Nicaragua, 1990-97
Violetta Chamorro
she unseated Daniel Ortega.[1] She was elected as the head of a 14-party anti-Sandinista alliance known as the National Opposition Union
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PM of Canada, 1993
Kim Campbell
Campbell was the first, and to date, only female Prime Minister of Canada
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Andre Sacarov's Dissident Wife
Elena Bonner
a Russian nuclear physicist, Soviet dissident and human rights activist
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Poetess from the Island of Lesbos
Sappho
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Lady from Coventry, England
Lady Godiva
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Titanic Survivor From Leadville, Co
(Unsinkable) molly Brown
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Pilot Lost over the Pacific, 1937
Amelia Earhart
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She went around the world in 72 Days, 1890
Nelly Bly
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Franco-Prussian War Nurse, Red Cross Founder
Clara Barton
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Frontier Woman from Deadwood, SD
Calamity Jane
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Wild West Show Sharp-Shooter
Annie Oakley
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Friend of the James Gang
Belle Starr
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Deaf Radcliffe Graduate, 1904
Helen Keller
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Helen Keller's Teacher
Anne Sullivan
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Hull House Founder
Jane Addams
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Lord Nelson's Lover
Emma (Lady) Hamilton
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Founder of Bryn Mawr School for Girlds
Edith Hamilton
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Austrian Born Pioneer of Child Pyschoanalysis
Anna Freud
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First President, National Women's Suffrage Assn
Susan B Anthony
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Women's Right's Leader from Seneca Falls, NY
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Hatchet Swinging Member of the Women's Temperance Union
Carrie Nation
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Burlesque Queen who lived in france
Josephine Baker
Black Pearl," "Bronze Venus" and even the "Creole Goddess
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Minsky's and Ziegfeld Follies Burlesque Dancer
Gypsy Rose Lee
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Million Dollar Mermaid Aqua-Movie Star
Esther Williams
American competitive swimmer and actress
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American Impressionist Painter
Mary Cassatt
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She Opened up the First Birth Control Clinic
Margaret Sanger
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Southwestern Painter of Flowers and Skyscapes
Georgia O'Keefe
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Amsterdam Diarist
Anne Frank
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1920s Etiquette Adviser
Emily Post
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Etiquette Adviser, Went to Jail 2004
Martha Stewart
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Original Platinum Blonde
Jean Harlow
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The Lady with the lamp
Florence Nightingale
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The Bird Woman
Sacajawea
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The Poor Little Rich Girl
Barbara Hutton
an American debutante/socialite, heiress and philanthropist. She was dubbed the "Poor Little Rich Girl," first when she was given a lavish and expensive debutante ball in 1930, amid the Great Depression, and later due to a notoriously troubled private life.
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The Blonde Bombshell
Jayne Manfield
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America's Sweetheart
Mary Pickford
80
The First Lady of the Silent Screen
Lillian Gish
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Girl int eh Red Velvet Swing
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
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Peekaboo Girl
Veronica Lake -her peek-a-boo hairstyle
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Sweater Girl
lana turner
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Sarong Girl
Dorothy Lamour
She is best remembered for appearing in the Road to... movies, a series of successful comedies starring Bing Crosby and Bob Hope.[1]
Her appearance as "Ulah" in The Jungle Princess (1936) brought her fame and also marked the beginning of her image as the "Sarong Queen."
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It Girl
Clara Bow
plucky shopgirl in the film It that brought her global fame and the nickname "The It Girl".[
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The Pinup Girl
Betty Grable
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First Lady of Song
Ella Fitzgerald
American jazz vocalist with a vocal range spanning three octaves
won 13 Grammy Awards and was awarded the National Medal of Arts by Ronald Reagan and the Presidential Medal of Freedom by George H. W. Bush
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First Lady of the American Stage
Helen Hayes
and was one of twelve people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award (an EGOT). Hayes also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honor, from President Ronald Reagan in 1986
Best Actress
1931 The Sin of Madelon Claudet
Best Supporting Actress
1970 Airport
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Queen of the Swashbucklers
Maureen O'Hara
90
Quest of the West
Dale Evans
91
Queen of the Surf
Esther WIlliams
92
Queen of Soul
Aretha Franklin
93
Queen of Disco
Donna Summer
94
The Brazilian Bombshell
Carmen Miranda
95
Alqonquin Hotel "Round Table Wit"
Dorothy Parker
96
Four Square Gospel Founder
Aimee Semple McPherson
based evangelist and media celebrity in the 1920s and 1930
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She Studied Mountain Gorillas
Dian Fossey
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She Studied Chimpanzees
Jane Goodall
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The Nun of Amherst or the Belle of Amherst
Emily Dickinson
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Emily Dickenson's Adviser
Helen Hunt Jackson
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Italian Teching Method Innovator
Maria Montessori
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abe Lincoln's young love
Ann Rutledge
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Dante's Love
Beatrice
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Frederic Chopin's Lover
George Sand
a French novelist and memoirist. She is equally well known for her much publicized romantic affairs with a number of artist
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Time-Life Korean War Photographer
Margaret Bourke-White
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Dashiell Hammet's Love
Lillian Hellman
American dramatist and screenwriter known for her left-wing sympathies and political activism. She famously was blacklisted by the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) at the height of the anti-communist campaigns of 1947–52
DH - Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon), Nick and Nora Charles (The Thin Man),
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The Last of the Red Hot Mamas
Sophie Tucker
108
Little Miss Sure Shot
Annie Oakley
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American Astronomer
Maria Mitchell
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Boss Fosse's Red Headed Wife
Gwen Verdon
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She Said "Call Me Madam"
Ethel Merman
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CNN'S British-Iranian Reporter
Christiane Amanpour
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Heiress Kidnapped on Feb 5, 1974
Patty Hearst
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Nobel Peace Prize Winner in 1979
Mother Teresa
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Slain Tejano Singer
Selena
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Red-Headed Country Music Star
Reba McIntrye
117
New Jersey Governor
Christie Todd Whitman
American Republican politician and author who served as the 50th Governor of New Jersey from 1994 to 2001, and was the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency in the administration of President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2003
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Texas Governor, 1991-95
Ann Richards
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Washington Governor, 1977-81
Dixie Lee Ray
state's first female governor and was known for her leadership of the state during the devastating eruption of Mt. St. Helens, for her strident support of atomic energy, and for her personal eccentricities
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Connecticut Governor, 1975-80
Ella Grasso
She was the first woman elected to this office and the first woman to be elected governor of a U.S. state "in her own right", as all three female governors preceding Grasso had been married to men who were previously the governor of their states.
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Connecticut Rep, 1943-47
Clare Booth Luce
the first American woman appointed to a major ambassadorial post abroad. A versatile author, she is best known for her 1936 hit play The Women, which had an all-female cast
-Ambassador to Italy and Brazil
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Maryland Senator and Congressperson
Barbara Mikulski
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Chicago Mayor, 1979
Jane Byrne
She was the first and only female mayor of Chicago, the second largest city in the United States, and the largest U.S. city to have had a female mayor as of 2014
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US Ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia
Shirley Temple Black
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Paleoanthropologist who died in 1996
Mary Leakey
126
Supreme Court Justice Appointed 1993
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Supreme Court Justice Appointed 2009
Sonia Sotomayor
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Supreme Court Justice Appointed 2012
Elana Kagan
129
Teacher who perished in the challenger Disaster
Christa Mcauliffe
130
She testified against Clarence Thomas
Anita Hill
131
White House Correspondent who retired after 40 years
Helen Thomas
132
First Test Tube Baby
Louise Brown
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Child Pulled from a Texas Well, 1984
Baby Jessica (McClure)
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Soldier Rescued in Iraq, 2003
Jessica Lynch
135
Nobel Prize Winner Released in Myanmar in 2010
Aung San Suu Kyi
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She swam from cuba to florida in 2013
Diana Nyad
2013, on her fifth attempt and at age 64, she became the first person confirmed to swim from Cuba to Florida without the aid of a shark cage,
The Naiads are water-centered nymphs in Greek mythology
